IronTiger Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Hello again! Recently I was browsing through some old Houston Post microfilms at Evans Library on campus (I did graduate) and found some cool ads and articles, which I'll be posting as time permits. I don't think this is *complete* (I'm pretty sure there was one at I-45 and Beltway 8 at some point), but here's the Phar-Mor locations in town as of June 1989, transcribed from an advertisement verbatim complete with wording idiosyncrasies (yes, "I-59"). Please don't actually call the numbers. ------------ THE COMMONS AT PRESIDIO SQUARE Bellaire Blvd. at Highway 6 Across from Fiesta Mart Store Ph.: 568-6591 Pharmacy Ph.: 568-5269 THE COMMONS AT WILLOWBROOK Tx. 249 & F/M 1960 Store Ph.: 890-3266 Pharmacy Ph.: 890-0488 SOUTH GESSNER SQUARE I-59 & South Gessner Store Ph.: 995-5681 Pharmacy Ph.: 995-4068 ALMEDA SQUARE Gulf Freeway & Kingspoint St. Store Ph.: 943-9918 Pharmacy Ph.: 943-9963 MEMORIAL CITY SHOPPING CENTER 980 Gessner Next to Montgomery Ward Store Ph.: 467-2400 Pharmacy Ph.: 467-8561 MEYER PARK SHOPPING CENTER South Post Oak Road at Route 610 Store Ph.: 729-6600 Pharmacy Ph.: 729-6661 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK ---------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I loved Phar-Mor. They were super cheap. Shopped at the one at 59 and Gessner. Don't remember the one in Meyer Park. Perhaps it opened right before they went out of business and just didn't last long. Of course none of them lasted to long. To bad they were mismanaged and went bankrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 We used to go to the one in Meyerland a lot. Then it became a music store whose name I've forgotten, I think it was called Media something, then it was a Blockbuster Music. I think that part of the Meyer Park shopping center was demolished a few years ago for redevelopment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 We used to go to the one in Meyerland a lot. Then it became a music store whose name I've forgotten, I think it was called Media something, then it was a Blockbuster Music. I think that part of the Meyer Park shopping center was demolished a few years ago for redevelopment.Media Play? From accounts, it was kind of like Hastings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle C Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 When you say I-45 and Beltway 8. Are you talking about North or South? I do not remember one at I-45 south and beltway 8. I don't imagine there was ever one there as it was would so close to the one at Almeda Square at I-45 and Kingsport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 the one at Hwy 6 and Bellaire was torn down to build an HEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 When you say I-45 and Beltway 8. Are you talking about North or South? I do not remember one at I-45 south and beltway 8. I don't imagine there was ever one there as it was would so close to the one at Almeda Square at I-45 and KingsportNorth, near Greenspoint Mall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 We used to go to the one in Meyerland a lot. Then it became a music store whose name I've forgotten, I think it was called Media something, then it was a Blockbuster Music. I think that part of the Meyer Park shopping center was demolished a few years ago for redevelopment. I went there too, when it was Phar-Mor and the record store/ movie rental place. It was down from Luby's and some Mexican food restaurant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 The Commons at Greenspoint location opened in August 1989, hence it's non listing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Ah yes Phar-Mor! One of the reasons we have Department stores with pharmacies now.I had forgotten that Phar-Mor operated down here. I'd only looked into their Midwestern operations. the one at Hwy 6 and Bellaire was torn down to build an HEB By the time I moved to the area that part of the strip center was abandoned. I know that only part of the strip center was torn down to build HEB. What else was in that strip center? Wasn't there a movie theater or something? Or was Phar-Mor just that big? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 Ah yes Phar-Mor! One of the reasons we have Department stores with pharmacies now. I had forgotten that Phar-Mor operated down here. I'd only looked into their Midwestern operations. Supermarkets and discount stores already had pharmacies by the time Phar-Mor made its brief dominance. Phar-Mor's schtick was a deep-discount, buy-in-bulk strategy that almost put Wal-Mart on the ropes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Stan Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I went to the one located in Almeda Square. They had a movie rental for 50 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I remember the one on Gessner, although I can't ever recall going inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurgis Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 (edited) I remember working at the Phar-Mor in Meyer Park (South Post Oak at the 610 extension). I helped get the store ready for grand opening, then continued working there for several weeks after opening. It might have been early 1989. There is a particular song that I remember hearing over the store's sound system, that probably just came out. Researching that song's release, dates the time frame. Edited April 24, 2015 by Gurgis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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